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Early Tudor Drama and the Arts of Resistance Edinburgh Research Explorer Early Tudor Drama and the Arts of Resistance Citation for published version: Walker, G 2011, 'Early Tudor Drama and the Arts of Resistance', Theta, vol. IX, pp. 69-94. https://doi.org/No DOI for this publication Digital Object Identifier (DOI): No DOI for this publication Link: Link to publication record in Edinburgh Research Explorer Document Version: Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Published In: Theta Publisher Rights Statement: © Walker, G. (2011). Early Tudor Drama and the Arts of Resistance. Theta, IX, 69-94. No DOI for this publication General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Edinburgh Research Explorer is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. 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Reproduction soumise à autorisation. Date de création Mai 2011 Theta IX – Théâtre Tudor Greg WALKER pp. 69-94 CESR, Tours Early Tudor Drama and the Arts of Resistance Greg Walker University of Edinburgh he study of early modern drama and history has been revolutionised in the last two decades, benefiting in Tequal measure from developments in historical and literary scholarship. The entrenchment of various forms of historicism at the heart of literary studies has made for fruit- ful synergies between the analysis of dramatic texts and his- torical contexts, while among early modern historians there has been a less obvious but nonetheless significant change in the ways that literary sources have been approached and understood. In particular, a greater appreciation of the role played by counsel as the organising principle of courtly culture has led to new ways of looking at politi- cal discourse, freer of the obvious dichotomies of “loy- alty” or “opposition”, power or resistance, subversion or containment that constrained earlier debates. This has allowed Tudor historians, once mired in the “strong king” versus “plaything of faction” debate about Henry VIII—its protagonists being primarily George Bernard (King’s Reformation) and Peter Gwyn for the strong king, versus David Starkey, Eric Ives and Sir Geoffrey Elton (“King or Minister?”, Reform and Reformation) for the plaything of faction)—to think of individuals and groups as attempting to persuade a strong king rather than simply to “bounce” a weak one into decisions. They have thus begun to think of poems, plays and prose tracts aimed at the king as political texts, worthy of attention alongside statutes, chronicles and correspondence as evidence of the political process. At the same time, the “historical turn” has allowed liter- ary scholars to take seriously the espousals of principle and morality in courtly verse, to see neglected forms such as panegyric, eulogy and mirrors for princes as something more than simply prince-pleasing or ideological window-dressing for a Machiavellian monarchy. Hence there is a more general agreement among scholars that any text or performance that the king might witness, read, view or merely hear about may have had a bearing upon political conduct, and thus on the history of the reign. New interpretations of Henry VIII’s personality and governmental style have also been conducive to fresh understandings of the role of literature and drama in the period. Historians such as Bernard and Gwyn have argued that Henry VIII was a primarily pragmatic ruler for much of the first half of the reign. Before 0, at least, he was open to debate, and encouraged contrary counsels as both a political virtue and a pragmatic resource, a means both of keeping options open and of deflecting criticism of policy towards bad advice—“evil counsellors” —when the need arose. He was clear in his long-term strategic aims, but inclined to leave as many tactical options open as possible for as long as possible. Hence negotiations with the Pope over the “Great Matter” of annulling his marriage to Catherine of Aragon were not broken off until well into the 0s, years after the concept of an independent “Imperial” sovereignty had first been articulated. More recently, Bernard has argued that Henry followed an essentially Erasmian path in religious reform, condemning the abuse of images and pilgrimage rather than the practices themselves, aspiring to create a church free from corruption and the “superstitious” accretions of centuries of lax practice rather than a doc- trinal revolution along Lutheran or Zwinglian lines.1 Taken together, these traits meant that, throughout the 0s, advocates of orthodox religious positions or of reconciliation with Rome might continue to hope for policy to shift back in their favour, and work towards that end, trying to counsel and persuade the king towards moderation, even as evangelicals were seeking to prompt him towards further reform. And literature and drama had roles to play in that debate along- side more obvious forms of political lobbying. 1 See Bernard, King’s Reformation, passim. 72 GREG WALKER THETA IX Both the conventions of late medieval political theory and the particular personality of the king thus connived in these years to create a culture ripe for “counsel” in all its forms to flourish. And research has begun to reflect upon the significance of this fact for our understanding of literary texts. Appreciating how a broad range of literary and visual works and performances might contribute significantly to political debate and culture as examples of advice or lobbying has led to a rethinking of how those texts might be read, not as vehicles for propa- ganda or flattery, but as part of a more complex dialogue with power over policy and strategy. The ideal of good counsel thus created a kind of benevolently des- potic literary culture in which the vocations of the writer, the poet or the scholar might be both sanctioned by the monarch and valued as a significant contribu- tion to national well-being. Such a culture gave poets and playwrights a role in the state and created an environment in which subjects were empowered to speak and monarchs enjoined to listen, without the former seeming presumptu- ous or the latter losing dignity.2 It was a subtle and flexible system, and when it worked, it worked well, offering something useful to each side in the conversa- tion, and allowing the discussion of otherwise dangerous topics to take place in a controlled environment. To cite an obvious example, celebrating Henry as a new King David, whether in portraiture, tapestries, book-dedications or psalmic paraphrase and transla- tion, glorified the king, and so offered opportunities for royal propaganda, but it also potentially humbled him—opening up a discourse of sin, guilt, repentance and redemption through which writers and artists could address him more or less obviously in the bold terms of admonition used by the Prophet Nathan to his biblical forebear.3 King David was the slayer of the papal Goliath, the father of his people, the priest-king who offered Henry a model of sacerdotal imperial kingship, but he was also an adulterous sinner who sacrificed political virtue and sanctioned murder in pursuit of a desirable woman: aspects of a chequered career that opened up space for a covert discussion of issues central to the campaign for an annulment of Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon and his pursuit of Anne Boleyn at a time when a more open discussion would have been unthink- able. The royal conscience—a notion intensely politicised by Henry’s public use of it in justifying the divorce,4 and fiercely contested by his critics abroad—might 2 See Walker, Plays, passim. 3 For the use of the “Story of David” in tapestries, see Campbell, especially at pp. 12-7 and 2-4. 4 See Pollito, p. 11, and Sharpe, pp. 70-71. THETA IX EARLY TUDOR DRAMA AND THE ARTS OF RESISTANCE 73 thus be, if not exactly “caught”, in Hamlet’s sense, then at least poked a little, and paraded in public by artists, poets and playwrights intent upon exposing the foundations of Imperial Kingship for discussion. Other literary forms similarly provided Tudor writers with ways of think- ing about—and vehicles for thinking through—social, cultural and political issues that other forms of writing or action could not offer. Sir Thomas Wyatt translated the satires of Alammani and Horace and the psalms in the 0s, not because they provided a useful metaphor for a series of already formulated polit- ical points that he wanted to publicise, but because those texts were for him, at that time and in that place, the readiest and most appropriate means by which he could apply his mind to the issues that concerned him and voice his thoughts among a circle of like-minded readers—his enforced marginality from court, his distress at the direction of current policies, and his frustrations with his own dilemmas over compliance or non-compliance, service or exile.5 These texts, and the range of subject-positions, stances and registers that they both sanctioned and structured, provided him with a means of struggling with the complexities and contradictions of his own position, as well as a vehicle through which to articulate (in both strong senses of the word) his views for his intended com- munity of readers.
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